TheBeardedQuill

Stories forged in ink and smoke.
Wyrd histories, dark humour, and bureaucratic magic.

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The Quill is moving. #24 in fiction in Substack.
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@CountDraculaDB Klaus. Dracula's third cousin, twice removed from Heidelberg.

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@DearS_o_n Need a fridge

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@Matt_Pinner Anyone that said all 20. You know numbers 14, 15 and 16 are missing, right?

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Magic stops being magical once it needs forms, fees, and approval.
I wrote a short piece on why I write fantasy this way, and how bureaucracy ended up scarier than dragons.

Behind the Quill: What Happens When Fear Doesn't Work https://t.co/feZiOz57wG

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THE YULE LOG JOB: Nothing says Christmas like curses, frostbite, and a bargain you definitely should’ve read the small print on. https://t.co/PicFGH5lig

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@AuthorJFuller You'd probably die of old age before I even considered it.

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@ohhanxiety It wouldn't hurt

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Smugglers don't start as criminals. They start as people carrying a little too much hope in the dark... and hope? Well hope glows like a beacon. Bright enough to attract wolves.

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Ministry Expenses:
• Furniture: £12
• Filing supplies: £4
• Freelance Exorcist: £40
• Emotional damages: incalculable
• Clerks eaten by cupboard: ongoing
New story: The Cupboard That Ate the Clerks
#horrorcomedy #BritishHumour
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@lippyent

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A blank page is never empty. It holds every story you’re too afraid to write. Until you scar it with ink.

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@realmattfalcon Because self-publishing isn’t plan B. It’s building the business around the words, not the other way round.

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The big houses sell books. Self-publishing builds empires.

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@woofknight Utility bill due!

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Ghostwriting was brilliant, until I realised I killed my own voice.
Would you stay Ghostwriting for the money, or walk away? 👉
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@s8n Easy way to identify a narcissist though

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@lhallwriter Mr Whippy